This paper examines the controversy involving international trade by employing a simple model. It analyzes the effects of unilateral technological improvements in one entity on the welfare of that entity and its trading partners. Improvements in one country are irreversible and lead to...

This paper examines how commercial banks reacted to the changes in monetary tools in mid-1994, when The Federal Reserve Bank altered its policy by implicitly targeting the Federal Funds Rate (FFR). Prior to 1994, the FFR had a lagged effect on the prime rate that charged commercial banks their...